Births and deaths of 2011 (Jordan Strauss/WireImage)

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Comedian and actor Patrice O'Neal was pronounced dead on the 29th of November due to a stroke he had suffered the month before; he was 41 and a frequent guest on the "Opie & Anthony" radio show on Sirius XM.

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